Etienne SICARD was born in Paris, June 1961. He received the B.S degree in 1984 and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toulouse, in 1987, in the laboratory LAAS of Toulouse. He was granted a Monbusho scholarship and stayed 18 months at Osaka University, Japan. Previously a professor of electronics in the Department of Physics, University of Balearic Islands, SPAIN, Etienne SICARD is currently a professor at INSA of Toulouse, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a visiting professor at the electronic department of Carleton University, Ottawa, in 2004. At LESIA, within the GEET academic consortium, his research interest includes several aspects of CAD Tools for the design of integrated circuits, including signal integrity in deep sub-micron CMOS ICs and electromagnetic compatibility.